Demonstrating that change continues to brush by the blockchain gaming sector, OG sports activities ecosystem Sorare has introduced it’s shifting to the Solana blockchain.
Launched again in 2018, Sorare had at all times been an Ethereum-based mission, initially launching on the Loom Community earlier than shifting to Starknet.
On this method, the transfer from the EVM ecosystem to the non-EVM Solana community is a giant change when it comes to expertise.
Nevertheless, Sorare has clearly been engaged on the transition for a while and says that gamers won’t have to vary something, with the change taking place mechanically for customers.
As for the explanations for the change, Sorare states that the transfer will unlock extra options together with
broader pockets help,
new fee choices (ETH, SOL, and shortly stablecoins),
exterior marketplaces, and upcoming options like particular promos, gameplay improvements and extra.
In fact, most of those may have been dealt with by remaining inside the EVM world. Solana’s fame as a blockchain for degens and memecoins, in addition to its quickest transaction instances, doubtless additionally performed an element within the choice.
By way of the timeline, Sorare says that each one gamers’ present ETH balances can be migrated to Coinbase’s Base blockchain in “early October”.
By the top of October, all Sorare playing cards can be bridged as Solana NFTs whereas preserving their attributes—shortage, serial quantity, season, XP, and metadata.
You’ll be able to learn extra concerning the adjustments on Sorare’s weblog.
